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THE

WORKS

OF

THOMAS MOORE,

COMPREHENDING

ALL HIS MELODIES, BALLADS, ETC.

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED WITHOUT THE ACCOMPANYING MUSIC.

VOL. VIII.

PARIS:

PUBLISHED BY A. AND W. GALIGNANI,

AT THE FRENCH, ENGLISH, ITALIAN, GERMAN, AND SPANISH LIBRARY,

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CONTENTS OF VOL. VIII.

RHYMES ON THE ROAD.

Dedication
Preface

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Introductory Rhymes. Different attitudes in which authors compose.-Bayes, Henry Stephens, Herodotus, etc.-Writing in bed-in the fields.-Plato and Sir Richard Blackmore.-Fiddling with gloves and twigs.-Madame de Staël. -Rhyming on the road in an old calèche EXTRACT I. View of the Lake of Geneva from the Jura.Anxious to reach it before the sun went down.- Obliged to proceed on foot.-Alps.-Mont Blanc.-Effect of the

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EXTRACT II. The Fall of Venice not to be lamented.-Former glory.-Expedition against Constantinople.-Guistinianis.-Republic.-Characteristics of the old Government. Golden book.-Brazen mouths.-Spies-dungeons.-Present desolation

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EXTRACT III. Lord B- 's Memoirs, written by himself.-
Reflections when about to read them
EXTRACT IV. The English to be met with every where.-
Alps and Threadneedle-street. The Simplon and the
Stocks.-Rage for travelling.-Blue-stockings among the
Wahabees.-Parasols and Pyramids.-Mrs. Hopkins and
the Wall of China

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EXTRACT VI. Reflexions on reading De Cerceau's account of the Conspiracy of Rienzi, in 1347.-The meeting of the Conspirators on the night of the 19th of May.—Their procession in the morning to the Capitol.-Rienzi's speech. 32

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The young muleteers of Grenada

Tell her, oh tell her

Nights of music

Our first young love

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To the memory of Joseph Atkinson, Esq. of Dublin
Epitaph on a well-known poet

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RHYMES ON THE ROAD,

EXTRACTED FROM THE JOURNAL

OF A

TRAVELLING MEMBER OF THE POCOCURANTE SOCIETY, 1819.

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